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Evo Devo Universe? A Framework for Speculations on Cosmic Culture

Posted by Jennifer Morgan | Jun 13, 2020 | Adult Education, Article, Cosmic Evolution, Current Issues, Higher Education, Lifelong, Other, Secondary 9 - 12 |

The underlying paradigm for cosmology is theoretical physics. In this paper we explore ways this framework might be extended with insights from information and computation studies and evolutionary developmental (evo-devo) biology. We also briefly consider implications of such a framework for cosmic culture. In organic systems, adaptive evolutionary development guides the production of intelligent, ordered […]

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The Pandemic, A Classroom for Climate Change

Posted by Mike Bell | Jun 9, 2020 | Adult Education, Blog, Current Issues, Education, Government, Higher Education, Law, Lifelong, New Cosmology, Project, Religion/Spirituality, Resource I Created, Secondary 9 - 12, Social Justice, The New Story |

This article demonstrates how the CORONAVIRUS pandemic can prepare us to deal with climate change. After discussing the similarities and differences between the two realities it suggests the need for a different way of viewing and relating to the living Earth. *

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Teleology for the Perplexed: How Matter Began to Matter

Posted by Jennifer Morgan | Jun 9, 2020 | Adult Education, Article, Cosmic Evolution, Higher Education, Lifelong, Religion/Spirituality, Resource I Recommend (Didn't Create), Science, Secondary 9 - 12 |

This paper appeared in Zygon magazine. Abstract. Lacking a plausible model for the emergence of telos (purposive, representational, and evaluative relationships, as in life and consciousness) from simple material and energetic processes, the sciences operate as though all teleological relationships are physically epiphenomenal. Alternatively, in religion and the humanities it is assumed either that telos […]

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Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing

Posted by Lowell Gustafson | Jun 9, 2020 | Adult Education, Big History, Biology and Earth Systems Science, Ecology/Sustainability, Higher Education, Journey of the Universe, Lifelong, Religion/Spirituality, Resource I Created, Secondary 9 - 12, Video |

A conversation with Sam Mickey, Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim, editors of Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing, with Lowell Gustafson, President, International Big History Association (https://bighistory.org/)

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The Illusionists

Posted by Lowell Gustafson | Jun 9, 2020 | Adult Education, Art, Big History, Higher Education, Journey of the Universe, Lifelong, Resource I Created, Science, Secondary 9 - 12, Video |

In this creative short story, The Illusionists, Lacy Loar-Gruenler shares her account of how Kurt Gödel and Albert Einstein “murdered” time. Or did they? https://youtu.be/JRXIsu735jw The text is available at https://ibha.wildapricot.org/resources/Documents/Origins/Origins_X_04.pdf#page=3 Lacy Loar-Gruenler has worked as a newspaper journalist, editor, and corporate lawyer. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Villanova University, and currently […]

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Singularity: Marie Howe’s Ode to Stephen Hawking, Our Cosmic Belonging, and the Meaning of Home (Animation)

Posted by Jennifer Morgan | May 20, 2020 | Adult Education, Higher Education, Lifelong, Resource I Recommend (Didn't Create), Secondary 9 - 12, Video |

“We, this people, on a small and lonely planet,” Maya Angelou begins “A Brave and Startling Truth”...

Origins Vol X Issue 4

Posted by Lowell Gustafson | May 18, 2020 | Adult Education, Article, Big History, Cosmic Evolution, Current Issues, Ecology/Sustainability, Higher Education, Lifelong, Religion/Spirituality, Resource I Created, Science, Video |

In this creative short story, “The Illusionists,” Lacy Loar-Gruenler shares her account of how Kurt Gödel and Albert Einstein “murdered” time. Or did they? The text is available here. 2021 Conference in India Evolution of the Human Brain-Mind Complex by Ravi Sadana Draft Program 2021 Guidebook to India Living Earth Community Corona Verse, by Nanette Fondas Origins: Vol X Issue 4

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A Feeling For The Organism.

Posted by Mike Bell | May 14, 2020 | Adult Education, Article, Blog, Current Issues, Government, Higher Education, Journey of the Universe, Law, Lifelong, Middle 6 - 8, Religion/Spirituality, Resource I Created, Science, Secondary 9 - 12, The New Story |

This article indicates that we are living in a world dominated by men, especially at the political level. But it notes that more and more women are taking lead roles in many areas. Because of their personal experience they seem to ave a different way of seeing the world and giving it meaning. This way […]

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UNEP Announcement: Faith-Based Organizations Can Help the Transition to a Sustainable Post Covid World

Posted by Jennifer Morgan | May 8, 2020 | Adult Education, Ecology/Sustainability, Higher Education, Journey of the Universe, Lifelong, Resource I Recommend (Didn't Create), Secondary 9 - 12, Social Justice, Website |

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has noted that the coronavirus pandemic is more...

Origins: The Bulletin of the IBHA, Volume X (Number 3)

Posted by Lowell Gustafson | May 7, 2020 | Adult Education, Article, Big History, Image, Lifelong, Resource I Created |

Corona Verse, by Nanette Fondas Big History in the Italian middle schools: a manifesto against knowledge fragmentation, by Paolo Vismara, YouTube presentation, Big History Italia Take a journey into Deep Time! Andrey Korotayev | The 21st Century Singularity and the Future of the World: A Big History Perspective, Book Take a Big History Course! Big […]

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Category: Adult Education

Evo Devo Universe? A Framework for Speculations on Cosmic Culture

Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing

The Illusionists

Origins Vol X Issue 4

A Feeling For The Organism.

Origins: The Bulletin of the IBHA, Volume X (Number 3)

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